Advertising Copying Public Domain 
Kluwer Copyright Blog
APRIL 29, 2024
Image via Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt Public Domain Mark 1.0 In this context of international and EU legal obligations to protect cultural rights, the EU has set a legal imperative to protect the public domain.
Patently-O
APRIL 17, 2024
by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit is set to consider the use of terms like “patented,” “proprietary,” and “exclusive” in commercial advertising can be actionable under § 43(a)(1)(B) of the Lanham Act when their use is not entirely accurate. Crocs largely prevailed in those actions.
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The IPKat
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
On the occasion of the opening of a new store in NY, the well-known clothing brand created a collection of NFTs based on digital copies of works of famous artists such as Miró, Tàpies and Barceló, incorporating various outfits of the collection available at the store, to be displayed in the Decentraland Metaverse, at the coordinates 16.78
TorrentFreak
AUGUST 7, 2022
At the other end of the market, cutting costs to maximize slender advertising revenues appears to be more important than a glossy user experience. ACE informed the court that the sites offered infringing copies of the movies Suicide Squad and Salt, plus TV shows Gold Rush and Deadliest Catch. Court Filing Targets Streaming Sites.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
He found that many commercially-available products were not being sold as advertised and included fillers and even toxic substances mixed in. Thompson, for his part, has said that he and his colleagues plan to “place our full set of concerns into the public domain soon,” signalling that this is not the end story.
The TTABlog
DECEMBER 13, 2022
The court began with the issue of functionality, finding that "[u]tility patents disclose, and some claim, the features of TBL's applied-for design, and TBL's own advertising touts the functional benefits the features." Most of the issued patents cited in this brief have expired, meaning that the disclosed features are in the public domain.
Copyright Lately
OCTOBER 25, 2021
As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. You can judge for yourself by downloading a copy of “Jap Herron” here. This prompted a lawsuit by Don Post Studios, which asserted that the Cinema Secrets mask was a copy of its own mask.
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